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Chapter 185 – Bailey

I lay in my bed, the doctor still talking to me, explaining the treatment they had given, but I was barely listening. My mind was on the fact Asher had stormed so angrily from my room. My eyes found themselves frequently drifting to the door in the hopes he would return. I couldn’t help but wonder if he had been about to actually tell me he loved me before the doctor disturbed us. Not that it matters right now.

Right now it seemed he didn’t want to be here. I felt numb. I don’t know if that was from my injuries or from the pain I felt from what had just happened with Asher, and without the ability to mindlink him, I had no way of reaching out to him to check he was okay.

“Are you okay, dear?” the doctor asked, interrupting my

thoughts. “I am sure the Beta is fine. He is known for being a little tempestuous. Has been since he lost his mate. They do say losing a mate can destroy a man, and I think with Beta Asher it truly did. But, I wouldn’t worry. He soon gets over things, and is back to his ever-charming self.” The doctor was smiling at me. Yeah, that sounded like the Asher I had first met. But not the Asher I had come to know. The Asher that had been opening up to me…

“I will be fine. I think I just want to rest.” I lied. I just wanted him to go. Leave me alone. The doctor nodded in agreement, when suddenly we heard a commotion out in the hallways. The doctor’ s eyes narrowed in confusion, before his eyes met mine.

He quickly stood and walked toward the door. “Let me go and

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see what is happening. There should not be that amount of noise in the hospital.”

“You are not fit to see her!” I heard Asher’s voice roar, and I had a sinking feeling I knew exactly who he was yelling at. I felt sick at the prospect…

But, the doctor, who had just reached the door of my room, turned to look at me with an awkward smile. “Well, I think we may have found the Beta.” And with that he excused himself. Yes. We had found Asher. He had gone to deal with the worst possible scenario. Miles had arrived to take me home, and I could only imagine the arguments happening right now…

“I am her mate. Her upcoming Alpha. Who is more fit to see her if not me?” the voice of the one person I did not want to see again, who was loud and confident in standing up to Asher. This was definitely not going to end well.

“You are not her mate, you f**king fool. You rejected her. That means you are done. She isn’t yours. You don’t own her.” Asher’ s voice was the angriest I had ever heard, and loud too, despite the fact I was listening through the walls of my room. I hated that the whole of the hospital were likely listening to their conversation right now. We’d be the pack’s source of gossip for the next few weeks, no doubt…

“Well, she sure as hell is not yours, or this pack’s.” Miles growled.

“Enough!” I heard a third voice, one I am almost certain was Alpha Caleb. He sounded pi**ed off. Extremely pi**ed off. “This back and forth is getting you nowhere. Miles, you came here for a reason, so get it over with.” He snapped.

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My heart sank as I realized what his words meant. Alpha Caleb had allowed Miles into the pack. He had let him in to take me home. I had hoped he would offer me protection, but it seemed he was standing by the pack protocols here…

Suddenly, the door swung open, and Asher rushed in, his eyes darting to meet mine. “Are you okay?” he asked, and I nodded slowly, as he joined me, at the edge of the bed, taking my hand in his. “I’m sorry for rushing out. I heard he had arrived” he mumbled.

I smiled. I realized that now. He stroked his thumb over my palm softly, his eyes not leaving mine, before Miles pushed past Alpha Caleb to come storming into the room. “Oh, this looks f**ing cozy.” He snarled. “So this was why you were all up in my face, was it?”

I watched as Asher took a deep breath, his eye shifting between his and Zion’s. I knew he was doing all he could right now to halt a full shift, as his grip tightened on my hand, as Miles continued. “You think she would lower herself to you when she had been fated to an Alpha?” he jeered, sounding so c****y.

“You are not an Alpha yet, Miles.” I pointed out, and his eye rested on me. “Asher is by far more of a man than you could ever be.”

Asher’s eyes rested upon mine as he smiled, while a deep growl slipped from Miles, causing Caleb to fly across the room, pinning him to the wall. The fact he was able to do it so easily told me Miles was not expecting it. I had seen Miles fight, he was a more than capable fighter… “You were f**king warned to watch yourself you little s**it. You are here to say what you need to say. Keep this up, and I will think nothing of letting my wolf

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out to play. He will quite enjoy playing with you, I am sure. Snapping you in half.” Caleb took me by surprise at his aggressiveness. That was not the man I was used to. But that was the voice of an Alpha in charge.

Miles did not break eye contact with Caleb, telling me he did not feel particularly intimidated by him. But, the good thing was, he did not push any further.

The door quickly opened, disturbing the tense atmosphere that was building, and in rushed Marc with Morgan following behind. I could only assume Asher or Caleb had contacted them. But, I saw Miles smirk as his eyes rested upon Morgan. “Aww, did you hear I was here, and you rushed over to see if I had come to take you home too, Morgan?” he said spitefully, and a deep growl came from Marc, but Morgan pulled him back stepping forward as Miles continued. “Realized your fated mate can’t live up to what you so desperately wanted before?”

“Take me home? I don’t think so.” Morgan said coldly, but confidently. “What I so desperately wanted? Get over yourself. I wanted you for all of about five minutes, Miles. It did not take me long to see sense. I would not touch you now. I might f**ing catch something, because f**k knows where you have been. I know what a real man is now, and it most definitely is not you. Seems Bailey does too.” And Morgan glanced toward where Asher was sitting, with a smirk. Wow. She was definitely more confident. I had never seen her stand up to Miles that way, and going off the look of shock upon his face, neither had he. I have to say I loved this side of my sister – she kicked a**

Marc stood behind his mate, a big smile upon his face, looking prouder than ever. But Miles looked dismissively toward Morgan, like her words meant nothing, before he turned to me.

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“Seems to be an awful lot of people rushing to protect you, Bailey. You been telling lies again?” he said, raising his brows accusingly. “I suppose all of you don’t know how good Bailey is at telling lies, do you? Making people believe things that didn’t really happen. Like, me rejecting her, when in truth it was her rejecting me?” he looked at me with a smirk, but what bothered me more was the eyes of Caleb, Marc and Asher all fell on me with confusion and doubt.

Surely they were not believing his f***ing words after everything they knew?!

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